Become a paid member to listen to this article The Cornelius Vanderbilt II Mansion on 57th Street and 5th Avenue, now demolished. Photo from Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division ...

George Washington Vanderbilt, who commissioned the Biltmore House in 1882, was Gloria Vanderbilt's great-uncle. Gloria Vanderbilt's grandfather, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, and George Washington ...

The last will and testament of the late Cornelius J. Vanderbilt was read last night by his counsel, Messrs. L.C. and G.B. Ashley, to the family, Executors, and principal legatees of the deceased ...

Both the Breakers — Alice and Cornelius II Vanderbilt’s 70-room castle in Newport — and the Biltmore, George Vanderbilt’s 250-room residence in Asheville, North Carolina, are now museums.

We drove the Blue Ridge Parkway to visit the largest home in America, Biltmore, George Washington Vanderbilt’s 8,000-acre country retreat in Asheville, N.C. George was the grandson of steamship ...

Nearly 150 years after his death in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer remains one of the most controversial figures in American history. That controversy — which makes… ...

Vanderbilt, already the owner of New York Central, fired the first shot in 1866 when he set out to gain control of the only competing railroad between New York and the Great Lakes: the Erie Railroad.

It's alleged Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, a dominant figure in American railroad history, became the inspiration for the potato chip. But it appears that story might be a fabrication. George ...